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The 22nd International Jazz Festival of Bogotá begins September 2, marking the start of a jazz-filled music month in Colombia. For nine days each September, the festival turns Bogotá into an epicenter of jazz music, bringing tourists to Colombia’s capital to hear the sounds of world-class and rising jazz musicians.
The festival, which is one of Latin America’s first and most well-known celebrations of jazz music, is organized by Bogotá’s Fundación Teatro Libre.
Among this year’s headlining performers are the Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama; American trio Medeski, Martin and Wood; pianist Monty Alexander; Cuba’s Habana Ensemble; the Dutch-Cuban Ramon Valle Trio; and the Italian Ialsax Quartet.
To learn more about the 22nd International Jazz Festival of Bogotá, visit www.teatrolibre.com.
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Colombia in the News / August 31, 2010
By Rep. Tom Price. American families continue to suffer from a weak and jobless economic recovery presided over and hindered by Washington's failed liberal policies. As of late, the majority party in Congress and the White House has shifted its focus to finding a political solution to gloss over the fact that nearly one in 10 Americans is without a job. Democrats are touting their "Recovery Summer" to a skeptical public; meanwhile, proactive initiatives that could help build a foundation for our future prosperity sit dormant. Most notably, three existing free-trade agreements negotiated under the last administration - with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. (...) Read more
Arabica coffee gained for the third straight session on concern that supplies from South America will be limited. Sugar and cocoa prices declined. Global coffee production is rising more slowly than demand, which will probably increase 2 percent a year over the next decade, Luis Genaro, the chief executive officer of Colombia’s National Federation of Coffee Growers, said last week. The commodity has gained 33 percent this year.
“The short-term fundamentals are bullish,” said Rodrigo Costa, the vice president of institutional sales at Newedge USA LLC in New York. “Some funds are buying.” Arabica coffee for December delivery gained 2.55 cents, or 1.4 percent, to settle at $1.814 a pound at 2 p.m. on ICE Futures U.S. in New York. The price gained 7.4 percent in the previous two sessions. On Aug. 23, the most-active contract reached $1.8865, the highest level since Sept. 11, 1997. (...) Read more
For two months now, Alejandro Falla has answered questions about the Wimbledon match he did not win. In the first round, he nearly knocked off Roger Federer in what would have ranked among the greatest upsets in Grand Slam history. In Colombia, strangers approached Falla in stores and restaurants, at tennis clubs and clinics. They wanted to know what it felt like that day on Centre Court. They asked what Federer said afterward. “How could you lose that match? You had him!” Falla recalled fans saying. But the defeat, as painful as it remains for Falla, had an unintended and positive effect. Mostly, it further highlighted the recent gains made by Colombian men’s tennis players at a time when both interest and rankings are at their highest. To wit: two Colombians (Falla and Santiago Giraldo) will almost certainly finish inside the ATP World Tour’s top 100 for the first time. Colombia’s Davis Cup team will host the United States a week after the United States Open. The country’s top junior, Juan Sebastian Gomez, recently obtained the International Tennis Federation’s No. 1 ranking. (...) Read more
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